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Lois Ruby
1) Soon be free
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While staying with her family in Louisiana's Laurel Oaks Plantation, purported to be one of the most haunted places in America, thirteen-year-old Lila is contacted by the ghost of a slave girl unjustly convicted of murder. Story inspired by the author's visit to the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
4) Red Menace
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, An imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American"--
